Sentence examples for cruel image from inspiring English sources

A cruel image perhaps, but it fits.

Patrick DeWitt's second novel, The Sisters Brothers, begins with a cruel image: a horse burning up in a fire, "his kicking, burning legs, his hot-popping eyeballs".

That's a racist and cruel image, and it's cast on all of the people out there who have a social conscience and who care about people as human beings".

Like the few needless, cruel images of slowly dying and distressed animals in the movie, the scrambled time doesn't deepen the meaning.

Yesterday's alleged chemical weapons attack in Eastern and Western Ghouta, outside Damascus, provided some of the most shocking and cruel images yet seen in Syria's two-year-old civil war.

Still I find it difficult, even now, to resolve the dissonance between these philosophical questions and the cruel images that remain in my mind (one jury member admitted to me she watched the entire film with her "eyes closed" because she wanted none of the images indelibly set in her memory).

His droll, sometimes cruel documentary images of people and food push right past the beautiful or mystical to the plastic or life-threatening.

The camera has the edge on painters in both immediacy (able to seize a single moment the subject has not chosen) and brutal honesty: a stripping of flattery completed by the super-real, super-cruel digital images in which Murdoch's Westminster evidence was transmitted.

RH: The celebration of photo-shopped images, cruel distortions of reality has affected me deeply.

She'd said something once, about how she would open a gulag for anyone who thought everything might not be totally fine, but it's hard now to distinguish what I see on the news from those cruel and mocking images that float through my dreams – when I can sleep, if I can sleep.

It is a heartbreaking image, unspeakably cruel, one of so many.